PN - Literature, Journalism

800 Literature & rhetoric

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Rosa Parks

A Celebration of Women Writers (See also P - Language and Literature)
Public Relations Society of America
Talkers Radio - talk radio
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

PN - Speech

815 Speech

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Maya Angelou, writer, poet

African American Speeches
1789 - 1797
(1789) An Unknown Free Black Author Describes Slavery In 1789
(1792) Prince Hall, “A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge”
(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”
(1797) Prince Hall Speaks To The African Lodge, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1808 - 1858
(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”
(1809) William Hamilton, “Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit and Mutual Relief”
(1817) J. Forten & Russel Perrott, "An Address To The Humane And Benevolent Inhabitants Of The City And County Of Philad"
(1826) John B. Russwurm, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti”
(1827) Rev. Nathaniel Paul Hails The End Of Slavery In New York
(1828) David Walker, "The Necessity of A General Union Among Us"
(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. "Slavery and Colonization"
(1832) Maria W. Stewart Advocates Education for African American Women
(1832) Maria W. Stewart, "Why Sit Ye Here and Die?"
(1834) William Whipper, "The Slavery of Intemperance"
(1836) James Forten, Jr. "Put on the Armour of Righteousness"
(1837) Theodore S. Wright, "Prejudice Against the Colored Man"
(1837) William Whipper, "Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression"
(1838) James McCune Smith, "The Abolition Of Slavery And The Slave Trade In The French And British Colonies"
(1839) Andrew Harris, "Slavery Presses Down Upon the Free People of Color"
(1839) Daniel A. Payne, "Slavery Brutalizes Man"
(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, "Slavery and the Irish"
(1841)Charles Lenox Remond, "Slavery As It Concerns The British"
(1842) Charles Lenox Remond, “The Rights Of Colored Citizens In Traveling”
(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, An Address To The Slaves Of The United States
(1843) Samuel H. Davis, "We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause"
(1844) Charles Lenox Remond, "For the Dissolution of the Union"
(1845) Frederick Douglass, "My Slave Experience in Maryland"
(1846) Lewis Richardson, "I am Free From American Slavery" 1846
(1849) Frederick Douglass, "On Mexico"
(1850) John S. Rock, “Address to the Citizens of New Jersey”
(1850) Lucy Stanton, "A Plea for the Oppressed"
(1850) Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen, “I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law”
(1850) Samuel Ringgold Ward, "Speech on the Fugitive Slave Bill"
(1851) Sojourner Truth "Ar'nt I a Woman?"
(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July"
(1855) William C. Nell, "The Triumph Of Equal School Rights In Boston"
(1856) Sara G. Stanley Addresses The Convention Of Disfranchised Citizens Of Ohio
(1857) Charles Lenox Redmond, "An Anti-Slavery Discourse"
(1857) Frances Ellen Watkins, "Liberty For Slaves"
(1857) Frederick Douglass, "If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress"
(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”
(1858) Mary Ann Shadd, "Break Every Yoke and Let The Oppressed Go Free"
1860 -1879
(1860) H. Ford Douglas, "I Do Not Believe in That Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln"
(1862) William C. Nell Speaks At The Crispus Attucks Commemoration, Boston
(1863) Alexander Crummell, “The Responsibility of the First Fathers of a Country for its Future Life and Character”
(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!
(1863) J. Stanley, "A Tribute To A Fallen Black Soldier"
(1863) Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, "Freedom's Joyful Day"
(1863), Alexander Crummell, “Emigration, an Aid to the Evangelization of Africa”
(1864) Arnold Bertonneau, "Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law"
(1864) Frederick Douglass On "The Mission Of The War"
(1864) Rev. J. P. Campbell, "Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go To War"
(1865) Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish”
(1865) James Lynch, "Colored Men Standing in the Way of their Own Race"
(1867) John Stella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference
(1867) Rev. E. J. Adams, "These are Revolutionary Times"
(1868) Francis Cardozo Urges The Dissolution Of The Plantation System
(1868) Reverend Henry McNeal Turner, "I Claim the Rights of a Man"
(1869) Frederick Douglass Describes The "Composite Nation"
(1869) John Willis Menard, "Speech Before the United States House of Representatives"
(1870) Henry O. Wagoner, Jr., Celebrates The Ratification Of The 15th Amendment To The United States Constitution
(1871) Jefferson F. Long, "Speech On Disorders In The South"
(1871) Joseph H. Rainey, "Speech Made in Reply to An Attack Upon the Colored State Legislators of South Carolina..."
(1871) Robert C. DeLarge, "Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment"
(1871) Senator Hiram Revels Calls For The End Of Segregated Schools
(1874) Richard Harvey Cain, "All We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation And Equal Rights"
(1875) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Great Problem to be Solved"
(1875) John R. Lynch, "Speech on the Civil Rights Bill"
(1876) Senator Blanche K. Bruce, "...Appointing a Committee to Investigate Election Practices in Mississippi"
(1877) Alexander Crummell, “Address Before the American Geographical Society”
(1877) John E. Bruce, "Reasons Why the Colored American Should Go to Africa"
(1877) Peter H. Clark, "Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society"
(1879) Robert J. Harlan, "Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs"
1879-1900
(1879) Ferdinand L. Barnett, "Race Unity"
(1884) William H. Crogman, “Negro Education: Its Helps and Hindrances”
(1884), Alexander Crummell, “Excellence, an End of the Trained Intellect”
(1886) Alexander Crummell, “Common Sense in Common Schooling”
(1886) Lucy Parsons, "I am An Anarchist"
(1886) T. Thomas Fortune, "The Present Relations of Labor and Capitol"
(1888) Frederick Douglass On Woman Suffrage
(1889) John E. Bruce, "Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy"
(1890) Joseph C. Price, "Education and the Problem"
(1890) T. Thomas Fortune, "It Is Time To Call A Halt"
(1893) Anna Julia Cooper, “Women's Cause Is One And Universal”
(1893) Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law In All Its Phases"
(1894) William Saunders Scarborough, “The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question”
(1895) Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise Speech
(1895) Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, "Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women"
(1896) John Hope, “We Are Struggling For Equality”
(1897) Mary Church Terrell, "In Union There is Strength"
(1898) Alexander Crummell, "The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect"
(1898) Margaret Murray Washington, "We Must Have a Cleaner Social Morality"
(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
(1898) Reverend Francis J. Grimke, "The Negro Will Never Acquiesce As Long As He Lives"
(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, "The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman"
(1899) Reverend D. A. Graham, "Some Facts About Southern Lynchings"
(1900) W.E.B. Du Bois, "To the Nations of the World"
1901-1949
(1901) George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress
(1903) Capt. Charles Young Speaks At Stanford University
(1905) Roscoe Conkling Bruce, "Freedom Through Education"
(1916) Robert R. Moton, "A Life of Achievement"
(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, "Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving"
(1919) William Pickens, "The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects"
(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”
(1922) Marcus Garvey, "The Principles of The Universal Negro Improvement Association"
(1922) Wyatt Mordecai Johnson, "The Faith of the American Negro"
(1923) Bishop Randall Albert Carter, "Whence and Whither"
(1923) James Weldon Johnson, "Our Democracy and the Ballot"
(1947) Moranda Smith Addresses The Congress Of Industrial Organizations Annual Convention, Boston
(1949) Ralph J. Bunche, “The Barriers of Race Can be Surmounted”
1963-1994
(1963) Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”
(1964) Fannie Lee Chaney, “Meridian Awakened”
(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
(1965) Bayard Rustin, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
(1966) Stokely Carmichael, “Definitions of Black Power”
(1967) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
(1974) Barbara Jordan's Statement: The Richard Nixon Impeachment Hearings
(1994) General Colin Powell Urges African American Students to Reject Racial Hatred
Highly requested speeches 1895-2004
Barack Obama: 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
Bill Cosby: "Pound Cake Speech" (NAACP)
Frederick Douglass: "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" (Script)
Learn Out Loud.com- All I Have Is A Seed On My Side by: T.D. Jakes
Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence
Martin Luther King, Jr: "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Definition of Greatness! Is to Serve
Nelson Mandella: "I Am Prepared to Die" (Script)
Reverend Al Sharpton: 2004 Democratic National Convention Address

Native American Speeches See alsoE-Native American History for additional web sites
Chief Buckongahelas: Address to Christian Native Americans at Gnadenhutten
Chief Canasatego: On Colonizing Educatio
Chief Logan: "Logan's Lament"
Chief Powhatan: Address to Captain John Smith
Chief Pushmataha: Response to Chief Tecumseh on War Against the Americans
Chief Red Eagle: Address to General Andrew Jackson
Chief Red Jacket: Address to White Missionaries and Iroquois Six Nation
Chief Tecumseh: Address to General William Henry Harrison chief Red Eagle

Q - Science

500 Natural sciences
510 Mathematics
540 Chemistry & allied sciences

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
The Conquest of Tuberculosis Gollanz 53

Ask Dr. Math
Educational World- Mega-Mathematics
Index of Women Scientists Profiled in the Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
International Code Council
Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES)
Protocol (Biotechnology)
Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
SACNAS- Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
Scientific American: Feature Article: The Puzzle of Hypertension in African-Americans
Storm Stock
Stormstock – Storm footage library
Web Math
Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network

QA - Mathematics

510 Mathematics

"I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it."
- Malcolm X

Challenging Problems
Online Mathematical Worksheets - allows students to set up problems, practice and get instant feedback.
Listed in order of learning.
Addition
Substraction
Multiplication
Multiplication Worksheet
Multiply and add fractions Work the problems on paper then check your answers online.
Division
Division Worksheet
Geometry Online
Geometry Through Art
Lessons to Motivate Underachieving Math Students
MathematicsAlgebra, Calculus, Differential Equations, Complex Variables, Matrix Algebra, Tables
MSU's Connected Math
Roman numerals

R - Medicine

610 Medical sciences & medicine

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
--Rev. William Sloane Coffin
chaplain of Yale University from 1958-1976 and
Senior minister of Riverside Church New York.

Hate has no medicine.
Ghana Proverb

African Americans and Cardiovascular Diseases Biostatistical Fact Sheet
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Efficacy – War on Drugs
Healthcare Industry Today
Local Hands
National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)
National Cancer Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Library of Medicine
National Sleep Foundation
Prescription Drugs
The Atlas of Heart Disease and Strokes

S - Agriculture

630 Agriculture

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver

Dirt (land) is much more valuable than diamond rings.
Eartha Kitt [c.1985]

Agricultural Engineering Associates
Agriculture 21
Agriculture and Agri - food Canada

George Washington Carver
Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) Agricultural Engineering
National Agricultural Library
Old Farmer's Almanac
U.S. Department of Agriculture

T - Technology

600 Technology (Applied sciences)

All diplomacy is a continuation of technology by other means.
Saturday Evening Post [March 27, 1954]

America's High Tech - Invisible Man (PDF Format)
Blacks and Computers
Committee for Democracy in Information (CDI) Technology
Community Technology Centers’ (CTC) Network

TA -Engineering

620 Engineering & allied operations

A lot of people give themselves bad advice. There are at least two people who would be multi-millionaires today if they had invested $1,000 I was asking for forty-seven years ago.
John H. Johnson (1919-2005) Johnson Publications

American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Institute of Chemical Engineering
Online Chemical Engineering Information

TX -Home Economics

640 Home economics & family living
641 Food & drink

"A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat." A Lexophile

All Recipes
Home Safety Council
How Stuff Works
Southern U.S. Cuisine
Weekly Recipes

U - Military Science

355 Military science

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him - he may be forced to - but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere.
James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name [1961]

Antiwar News
Buffalo Soldiers: The African-American Contribution to Guarding the Frontier
Cathay Williams - A Female Buffalo Soldier
Military and the Media
Military Clip Art Library
Sergeant Henry Parker
The nation's first African American Marines: Montford Point Marines, North Carolina
Transcribed Newspaper Articles-Franklin County - Virginia: African-Americans in the War
United States Department of Defense
Vietnam War Project, Texas Tech University

V - Naval Science

359 Sea (Naval) forces & warfare

Wind off the water was like a fist of fresh air, a cleansing blow.
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage [1990]

Z - Library Science African American Authors and Books

020 Library & information sciences

I had the knowledge and the power all the time but I did not know how to use it."
Prince, from Ebony Magazine

African American Bookstore
African American Literature Book Club (AALBC)
Black Books Galore!
Celebrate Black Love
Copyright and Fair Use – Stanford University
Gateway to Library Catalogs
Hobbes' Internet Timeline v7.0
Homework Center-African-American Sites
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Library Recruitment and Diversity
Cultural Diversity and Minority Recruitment
Diversity: Where We Are and Where We Came From
Magazines and Journals online-MagPortal
Martha Southgate
Nat Turner’s Revenge
Participating Institutions search
Resources in Digital Preservation/Digital Libraries
Digital Preservation Coalition
Searching the OCLC Mixed Materials File
The History Makers
The Virtual Chase - Teaching Legal Professionals How To Do Research
Tina McElroy Ansa
World Library and Information Conference, Cooperative Virtual Libraries, Argentina, 2004 (PDF Format)

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